Iraq police find bodies of 18 Sunnis; bombs kill 4

BAGHDAD — Police found the corpses of 18 Sunni men Friday shot near a town just north of Baghdad, Iraqi officials said, hours after they were abducted by gunmen wearing military uniforms. Such killings are reminiscent of Iraqs worst days of sectarian warfare in 2006 and 2007, when both Shiite and Sunni Muslim death squads roamed the streets and took people from their homes. Police said the abducted men were killed by gunshots to the head. Authorities found the bodies early Friday in farmland near the Sunni town of Mishahda, some 30 kilometers (20 miles) north of Baghdad. Gunmen in four cars snatched the men, who included two army officers and the towns mayor, from their houses late Thursday. A Baghdad morgue official confirmed receiving the 18 bodies. He said that all the relatives who came forward to claim the bodies were Sunnis. Earlier this week, police found 13 bodie...